Del Toro Hints at Slaughterhouse-Five Movie

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind scribe Charlie Kaufman is now said to be adapting Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 book Slaughterhouse-Five for director Guillermo del Toro.

Often described as Vonnegut's most influential work, the novel centers on a soldier named Billy Pilgrim who learns about the true nature of time from an alien race known as the Tralfamadorians.

According to THR, Del Toro reportedly said that he and Kaufman, "talked for about an hour and a half and came up with a perfect way of doing the book," adding that "the idea of the Tralfamadorians [being] 'unstuck in time,' where everything is happening at the same time" was what he hand in mind for his own adaptation.

The filmmaker didn't go into any further story details. He did, however, note that a Slaughterhouse-Five movie would still be a long ways off. "[Universal] will make it when it's my next movie," he continued, "but how can I commit to it being my next movie until there's a screenplay? Charlie Kaufman is a very expensive writer!"

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